GHLS 114 — Advanced Ghanaian Language Proficiency II
Linguistics · University of Ghana
This course will place much emphasis on both oral and written literature. The students will be required to read Ghanaian language texts in prose, drama, poetry and oral literature genres and identify the literary devices such as metaphor, simile, personification, pun and idiophones used in them. They will be engaged in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation. They will be encouraged to engage native speakers in conversation and also handle topics in various domains like politics, religion, education and health. Students will be assigned to listen to specific Ghanaian language programmes on radio, especially Radio Univers, Obonu FM, Peace FM or watch TV programmes that use the specific language being taught. They will also be encouraged to watch news broadcasts in the Ghanaian languages on GTV. Finally, the course will involve aspects of oral literature and customs and institutions of the Ghanaian languages. Areas to be covered include folktales, proverbs, folksongs, religion and chieftaincy. By the end of the course, students should be able to write small projects and reports based on interviews and fieldwork and on some current events in the respective Ghanaian languages. Students should be able to handle various types of texts in translation from English to the respective Ghanaian languages and vice versa. Areas of translation should include news items, advertisement, announcement and editorials. Course Requirement: The student must have taken a Beginner‘s, Intermediate and Advanced I Courses in the respective Ghanaian languages (e.g., GHLS 111, GHLS 112 and GHLS 113).
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
Other courses on this programme
- GHLS 111 — Ghanaian Language Proficiency for Beginners
- GHLS 112 — Intermediate Ghanaian Language Proficiency
- GHLS 113 — Advanced Ghanaian Language Proficiency I
- GHLS 430 — Project
- GHLS 441 — Written Literature of a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 442 — Advanced Composition in a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 443 — History and Development of a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 444 — Topics in Ghanaian Language Studies
- LING 417 — Language and Law
- LNGS 301 — Introduction to Phonology
- LNGS 302 — Syntax I
- LNGS 304 — Morphology and Syntax of a Ghanaian language
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).